consolato del mare

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Consolato del mare \Con`so*la"to del ma"re\ [It., the consulate
   of the sea.]
   A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to
   have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th
   century. It has formed the basis of most of the subsequent
   collections of maritime laws. --Kent. --Bouvier.
   [1913 Webster]

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

CONSOLATO DEL MARE, (IL). The name of a code of sea laws compiled by order 
of the ancient kings of Aragon. Its date is not very certain, but it was 
adopted on the continent of Europe, as the code of maritime law, in the 
course of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. It comprised the 
ancient ordinances of the Greek and Roman emperors, and of the kings of 
France and Spain; and the laws of the Mediterranean islands, and of Venice 
and Genoa. It was originally written in the dialect of Catalonia, as its 
title plainly indicates, and it has been translated into every language of 
Europe. This code has been reprinted in the second volume of the "Collection 
de Lois Maritimes Anterieures au XVIII. Siecle, par J. M. Pardessus, (Paris, 
1831)." A collection of sea laws, which is very complete.